Medical Specialty Care
Three designations that don't exist at a general community hospital, all concentrated in one academic health system: a verified Level I trauma center, an NCI-designated cancer center, and a freestanding comprehensive pediatric hospital with the state's only Level I pediatric trauma verification.
OU Health Oklahoma Children's Hospital
OU Health Oklahoma Children's Hospital, in Oklahoma City, is Oklahoma's only freestanding, comprehensive pediatric hospital, and its trauma program carries the state's only Level I pediatric trauma center verification. It also runs Oklahoma's only comprehensive pediatric heart and heart-surgery program and the highest level of neonatal intensive care available in the state — specialty pediatric infrastructure that doesn't exist at a general community hospital.
OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center
OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center became Oklahoma's only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in 2018 and successfully renewed that designation in 2023 after a five-year review, ranking among the top 2% of cancer centers nationwide. It runs more than 300 active clinical trials, including the state's only Phase I clinical trial program, backed by more than $60 million a year in federal research funding across 400-plus projects.
OU Health University of Oklahoma Medical Center
The University of Oklahoma Medical Center, OU Health's flagship hospital in Oklahoma City, houses Oklahoma's only Level I trauma center, verified by the American College of Surgeons — the highest trauma-care designation, requiring round-the-clock in-house specialist coverage and ongoing research and outreach that a Level II or III center isn't required to carry. OU Health itself, formed in 2020 by unifying OU Medicine and the OU Health Sciences Center, is Oklahoma's only comprehensive academic health system.